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<apteryx>snarfi just got a HTML table -> Texinfo multitable converter

<apteryx>no spans support yet, but that's probably rare in SRFI specs

<isaneran>good day guilers

<janneke>any chance/idea if python-on-guile will be fixed/resurrected some time ? this looks pretty bad -- https://gitlab.com/python-on-guile/python-on-guile/-/commit/5f57319614e2e8b0d9ca9681fcac1627864a55a9

<dsmith>sneek, seen stis

<sneek>I think I remember stis in #guile 5 months ago, saying: One can derive planc's constant, explain a meassured mass anommally, understand what the fine structure constant is ....

<dsmith>janneke, Pretty sure that python is from from stis. Looks like he hasn't been around here lately either.

<janneke>dsmith: ok, thanks

<apteryx>why is there a COPYING file containing the GPL-3.0-or-later license text?

<apteryx>in the Guile tree; isn't it supposed to be licensed as LGPL-3.0-or-later?

<apteryx>(there's also a COPYING.LESSER file)

<Arsen>read COPYING.LESSER

<dsmith>Long time ago, before there was a LGPL, Guile was GPL + some extra permissions/exceptions or something. SO you could use it with non-GPL code

<apteryx>Arsen: I see; the text of the LGPL builds on top of the GPL license, so it makes sense to have the GPL text in the tree as well?

<apteryx>"This version of the GNU Lesser General Public License incorporates the terms and conditions of version 3 of the GNU General Public License, supplemented by the additional permissions listed below."

<Arsen>yes

<apteryx>reuse download LGPL-3.0-or-later puts the LGPL text at tE top of LICENSES/LGPL-3.0-or-later.txt, and the GPL text appears in the same file below it.

<Arsen>sure?

<Arsen> * a reference to the file which contains the copying conditions. The

<Arsen> GNU GPL, if used, should be in a file called 'COPYING'. If the GNU

<Arsen> LGPL is used, it should be in a file called 'COPYING.LESSER'.

<apteryx>I wasn't adding anything new, but it makes sense :-)

<Arsen>(standards)Releases

<apteryx>That's a GNU convention I guess

<Kolev>Yeah, the FSF recommends COPYING.LESSER for the LGPL.

<apteryx>I find it somewhat confusing, I guess it's designed to be ;-)

<Arsen>not really?

<Arsen>the files licenses are in have no bearing on licenses of individual files. the reason COPYING.LESSER is in COPYING.LESSER is because copyright headers refer to it

<Arsen>or they ought to anyway

<dsmith>For example, most of Guile is now LGPL, but the readline stuff is GPL

<apteryx>and that's maintained in the same repository?

<Arsen>it's a module

<apteryx>OK!

<Arsen>see guile-readline/

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